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Programme notes for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-Overture Die Zauberflöte - The Magic Flute, K. 620 & Ludwig Van Beethoven-Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 performed by the Tasmania Discovery Orchestra, April 2011
The TDO is a refreshingly new, bold idea in Australian orchestral music
making, designed to offer musicians with advanced orchestral instrument
skills the opportunity to come together and make great music in Hobart,
Tasmania
Buckingham Rifles Index : Royal Society of Tasmania Collection
Presentation of colours May - Oct. 1861
File of papers concerning the presentation of colours and a
bugle to the Buckingham Volunteer Rifle Corps, by the ladies
of the county; including subscription lists, receipts for
payments to the designer of the flag, to the carpenter for
erecting a platform, etc., invitation, letter from Lady Young from Entally, agreeing to make the presentation addressed to the
secretary of the (Ladies) Committee Arthur Kennard Chapman, but pointing out that colours are not appropriate to Rifle Corps who are not supposed to act like a regiment as one body.
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Glenorchy Index: Royal Society Collection
Glenorchy
Grant of land 1 Jan. 1817
Grant of 80 acres at Glenorchy to Edward Barnes, signed and
sealed (wafer) by Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South
Wales
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(paper doc. torn)
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Maps index. Royal Society Collection
Maps, printed and manuscript. held in the Royal
Society of Tasmania's Manuscript Collection.
Early world maps including Australia, early maps of Australia and Tasmania.
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The Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer
The Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligence, Hobarts first and short lived newspaper was first issued on 8 January 1810. This issue No. 7, 3 April 1810 gives an account of the recent death and funeral of David Collins, Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land.
This copy is slightly damaged, housed in a double sided frame
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John Ingle Index: Royal Society Collection
Letter dated May 21 1841 and sketch plan of property. John Ingle (1781-1872) was a merchant and shipowner who had
sailed with David Collins' expedition, arriving in 1804. He
received a grant of land near Bagdad and acquired further
property in Hobart and elsewhere. He was a friend of Edward
Lord who was a fellow traveller on the Collins voyage, as was James Hobbs whose sister, Rebecca, Ingle married in 1804. In 1818 John Ingle left Tasmania and sold some of his property to Edward Lord but retained some property and commercial interests.
Back in England he married Sophia Currey, whose family were bankers.
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Printed bulletins, extracts from newspapers, & proclamations 1812, 1815. Index: Royal Society Collection
Printed bulletins, extracts from newspapers, & proclamations, dated 1812, 1815
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Hobart Rating List Index. Royal Society Collection
Hobart rating List, dated ?1875
from Hobart Town Gazette 1875
Rating list for Hobart torn out of Gazette - gives
owners, occupiers, rateable value, street by street.
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Birds of Tasmania Index. Royal Society Collection
Birds of Tasmania ND [early 20th cent]
Notes and extracts from the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum (London) 1874- of birds which may be found in Tasmania, made by an unknown researcher (? early 20th century) on loose half sheets of foolscap paper (possibly originally in a spring type binder, including diagram of bird and illustrations of eggs and beaks.
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Miscellaneous Convict and Legal Material 1830 - 1860 Index: Royal Society Collection
Convict returns and orders for transportation 1830 - 1854.
Medical certificate for prisoner, James Ferry, Millbank Prison London 1844.
Certificate for well conducted men embarking with ticket of leave, for James Brooks, aged 38, joiner, aligned by the Governor of Portland Prison.
Convict Records 1833 - 1857.
Conditional Pardons 1838 - 1860.
Remission of sentence 1842 - 1843
Certificate of completion of sentence 1836, issued to William Hinsley.
Certificate of completion of sentence 1850 - 60 issued to John Dare, Ralph Dixon, William Plumb and Caroline Pottinger.
Other documents including warrants for appearance, unused forms, subscription lists for dock labourers, correspondence relating to Lt. Gove. Eardley Wilmot, certificates for good conduct.
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